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Remember when I used to do link round-ups?

I thought I’d try it again. See where that gets us! Up top I’m linking two recent posts I wrote for Reactor (formerly Tor.com), one a review of Yoon Ha Lee’s new YA novel, the other an introduction to Aliette de Bodard. I stay writing things! Writing things is fun! A researcher decided to do neurofeedback experiments on indigenous children. Like, recently. We never learn anything, I s2g. Should rich people be allowed to do science? PERHAPS NOT. How classics fans (may) get funneled into alt-right content on the platform previously known as Twitter. Andrea Long Chu on Rachel Cusk.…

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Lies, Conspiracies, and Scandalous Emails: A Links Round-Up

Oops, I let many years pass since my last links round-up, and you have all been deprived of the best links on all the internet. I am sorry for this long hiatus, and I bring you here what I hope is a particularly stellar collection of links. As we head into Mardi Gras weekend, I hope your personal bon temps are roulezing away! Catch some beads! Drink some beer! Here’s the definitive update on the indie romance writer who faked her own death. It is, perhaps not unexpectedly, a pretty sad story. On the resemblance of dinner to a magic…

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Not Quite the Millions Book Preview Yet: A Links Round-Up

I optimistically hope that the next links round-up will include the Millions‘s great book preview for the second half of 2022, but since that wonderful post has not yet arrived, you will have to make do with Lit Hub’s second-half of 2022 book preview instead. You may also enjoy NPR’s Books We Love tool, formerly the Book Concierge, which covers the first half of 2022 and always blows my TBR list to hell. Akwaeke Emezi talks to Elle about their latest book title, ghosts, and getting plot ideas from their dreams. Thailand is a premiere destination for gender-conforming surgery —…

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THE MILLIONS BOOK PREVIEW: A Links Round-Up

Because it’s January, and I was posting a links round-up, I happened to wander over to The Millions to check on the status of their semi-annual book preview. AND IT IS LIVE. AND I MISSED IT. I somehow blame Wordle for this. I love Wordle, but surely if it hadn’t been taking over our twitter feeds, I would have seen people talking about the The Millions semi-annual book preview on Twitter. And then I would have known. HERE IT IS. (link) “I doubt Joanna Gaines had ‘Build a Personal Brand Empire Increasingly Reliant on Data Scraping’ on any of her…

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IT IS READATHON DAY, but also, A Links Round-Up

Happy Readathon, if you are doing Readathon! I meant to post this an hour before Readathon started, but time got away from me and, well, here we are. I am just going to have to start a little late. Such, I fear, is life. In the meantime, have some links! A profile of Lindy West, on the occasion of the release of Shrill. How the internet is helping to preserve critically endangered languages. What is society really nostalgic for, when it talks about “going back” to an era of healthy, home-cooked meals? The reality TV industry isn’t providing adequate mental…

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More Harassment Links than I Would Prefer: A Links Round-Up

No lie: I was looking at the bottom of this links round-up and thinking that it was pretty smart of me to corral all the harassment and assault writing in one big paragraph. Then I scrolled back up to the top and realized there were more harassment links because APPARENTLY nobody can just OBSERVE APPROPRIATE BOUNDARIES. I sure love boundaries, y’all. Here are some links. Some contain harassment; I wish they did not but if wishes were fishes, eh? A personal account from a former teaching assistant to Avital Ronell, the NYU professor accused of harassment. The brilliant Carol Anderson…

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